Jag har hört det sagt att någon gång Doctor Who TV-serierna hade en regel att de inte borde ha utlänningar som bara var folk i gummikläder. T.ex. detta påstående om Daleks:
The Daleks were created because the guy in charge of the BBC said "No rubber-suited aliens," so they made rubbish-bin aliens instead.
Nu har jag gjort lite av att söka på nätet och har inte kunnat hitta en bra källa för detta krav.
Från en intervju med BBC-producenten Philip Hinchcliffe, som ansvarade för Doctor Who i sina Tom Baker år:
On the Daleks and whether he [Hinchcliffe] had a favorite villain:
The Daleks were foisted on me, I didn’t really want the Daleks. If you look at what I did that first season when they didn’t know who was going to take over and they didn’t know who the Doctor was going to be - this was in 1974. They thought, right, let’s go back to famous monsters and we’ll be safe, even if we’ve got Mr Pastry playing the Doctor - don’t you know who Mr Pastry was? He was a guy on a kids’ show but inappropriate really for the role – so they were playing it safe with old monsters.
I wanted to move away from that and take it more towards science fiction, or have more science-fiction stories and not have every story based on it being a variation of Invasion of Earth. I’d read quite widely science fiction and dystopian fantasy. Now they look fantastic, the Cyberman and so on, but in those days you knew it was an actor in a rubber or polystyrene suit, so to just keep trundling out monsters that were actors walking around in funny costumes was not my idea of what you could do with the show. What I did in a way was to deliberately and consciously divide up what I used to call ‘the monstrous element’ in the narratives so that they might not just be a monster, but there had to be something that was monstrous going on, and then something else, so there’d be elements that would add up overall to a kind of spooky and threatening feeling.
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När det gäller Daleks, noteras att de inspirerades av peppar och saltpottar i stället för skräpkartor, vilket rapporterades i en BBC-retrospektiv på Daleks designer Ray Cusick, som nyligen gick bort. Motivationen var att få en utlänning som rörde sig som en saltpott som glidde längs ett bord:
He [Cusick] explained that, in fact, the pepper pot detail came from a lunch with Bill Roberts, the special effects expert who would make the Daleks, when Mr Cusick picked up a pepper pot and moved it around the table, telling him: "It's going to move like that - no visible means."
"Ever since then people say I was inspired by a pepper pot - but it could have been the salt pot I picked up," he said.
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No bug-eyed monsters
Det här inledande förslaget för att undvika konstiga över-de-främsta utomjordingarna var täckt i docudrama Ett äventyr i rymden och tiden . De ville inledningsvis fokusera på utbildning och historia.
DettaövergavstillförmånförattanvändamångautomjordingarochmonsterefterframgångenavdeförstaDalek-storylinerna.
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